Re: DC power on Tesla secondary (was 20 joules at 100 bps vs 4 joules at 500 bps)

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Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

At 05:33 PM 8/12/2005, you wrote:
> Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz" <acmdq@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Tesla list wrote:
> > Original poster: "Peter Terren" <pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > I'm sure that it will do very bad things to a TC secondary.  20kJ 
> > is an order of magnitude greater than I have had available before 
> > and I have a bit of trouble conceptualising that power.
> > I once reported a gunshot to the police.  It turned out it was 
> > about a mile away. I think it might be similar.
>
> Take a compact car (1000 kg), rise it 2 meters, and drop it to the
> ground. This is 20 kJ.
>
> Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz
Comparative energies come up all the time:

http://home.earthlink.net/~jimlux/energies.htm


In most applications, though, the  average power over a fairly short 
time (which is kind of like energy) is the relevant measure.